From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Fri Feb 22 16:08:05 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4E9D14F1AFF for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2019 16:08:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Received: from mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (mailman.ysv.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::50:5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C97273462 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2019 16:08:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Received: by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) id 1B2B014F1AFA; Fri, 22 Feb 2019 16:08:05 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0874714F1AF8 for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2019 16:08:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Received: from bede.qeng-ho.org (bede.qeng-ho.org [217.155.128.241]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9EBF17345E for ; Fri, 22 Feb 2019 16:08:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Received: from arthur.home.qeng-ho.org (arthur.home.qeng-ho.org [172.23.1.2]) by bede.qeng-ho.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B9A110640; Fri, 22 Feb 2019 16:08:03 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Re: size of debug symbols To: Robert Huff Cc: FreeBSD Questions List References: <46040D79-BA05-43F5-9213-67094355B68A@cretaforce.gr> <20190222162801.aa891c03.freebsd@edvax.de> <23664.7343.854264.787515@jerusalem.litteratus.org> From: Arthur Chance Message-ID: <10f6f59f-364e-20bc-0e15-cdb28f1f8d26@qeng-ho.org> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 16:08:02 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <23664.7343.854264.787515@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 9EBF17345E X-Spamd-Bar: ------ Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-6.99 / 15.00]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; REPLY(-4.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.99)[-0.993,0] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 16:08:06 -0000 On 22/02/2019 16:00, Robert Huff wrote: > >> But did you consider deleting older versions of libraries >> that are maybe still present? >> >> >From /usr/src/Makefile: >> >> # delete-old - Delete obsolete directories/files/libraries. >> # delete-old-dirs - Delete obsolete directories. >> # delete-old-files - Delete obsolete files. >> # delete-old-libs - Delete obsolete libraries. >> >> Maybe you're seeing obsolete stuff, too... > > When I run "make delete-old", I get asked about each individual file. > There are a _lot_ of files. > Is there a way to say "y" to everything? I know this - > technically - incurs a certain amount of risk. But considering Ican't > remember any reports of someone getting bit by this it seems like a > risk worth taking. Add -DBATCH_DELETE_OLD_FILES to your make invocation. -- Always learn from the mistakes of others, because you won't live long enough to learn from making all possible mistakes yourself.